Canton, Jan. 20.
Kuantung and Kuangsi are making a combined effort to bring the civil conflict in Kueichow to a definite end and to remove the causes of strife existing in the province. Gen. Li Chung-jen, Commander-in-Chief of the Kuangsi armies, is acting as mediator and has arrang-fed a peace conference at Nanning, to which Gen. Wang Chi-lich, the) resent Governor of Kweichow, his Jopponents (Gens. Mao _Kwang-chang and Vu Kuotsai), and othe prominent Kweichow leaders have been invited.
Civil war has been in progress in Kweichow for the last few years. Peace reigned for a short wise after the ousting of Gen. Mao Kwang-chang by Gon. Wang Chia-ich, but fighting was resumed on a large scale towards the close last year, when Gen. Vu Kuo-tsai renewed his attack on the provincials—Reuter.
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